Antonio Valente graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) in Portugal in 1994. In 1999, he earned his MS in Industrial Electronics from the University of Minho in Portugal. He obtained his PhD from the UTAD in 2003 while working in the field of microsystems for agriculture. He was the director of the engineering department from 2013 to 2017. Presently, he is an associate professor with Habilitation in the Department of Engineering at the UTAD. He is a senior researcher at the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering–Technology and Science (INESC TEC). He was chairman of ICARSC 2015 and the local organizer of Robótica 2015 in Vila Real, Portugal. He is the organizer of the Portuguese Micromouse Contest (an international robotics competition organized annually). His professional interests are in sensors, the IoT, microcontrollers, embedded systems, and robotics with applications focused on agriculture.
Antonio Valente graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) in Portugal in 1994. In 1999, he earned his MS in Industrial Electronics from the University of Minho in Portugal. He obtained his PhD from the UTAD in 2003 while working in the field of microsystems for agriculture. He was the director of the engineering department from 2013 to 2017. Presently, he is an associate professor with Habilitation in the Department of Engineering at the UTAD. He is a senior researcher at the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering–Technology and Science (INESC TEC). He was chairman of ICARSC 2015 and the local organizer of Robótica 2015 in Vila Real, Portugal. He is the organizer of the Portuguese Micromouse Contest (an international robotics competition organized annually). His professional interests are in sensors, the IoT, microcontrollers, embedded systems, and robotics with applications focused on agriculture.